Tourists Will Spend 1.8B Dollars on the Day of the Dead in Mexico Mexico Daily Post
go to original October 25, 2022

The festivities of the traditional Day of the Dead in Mexico, the period between October 28 and November 2, will leave an expense for consumption of tourist services of 37,722 million pesos (about 1.893 billion dollars), reported this Sunday the Ministry of Tourism (Sectur) of Mexico.

The head of the agency, Miguel Torruco, explained in a statement that during these six days the arrival of 2.16 million tourists to hotels is expected, which compared to the same period in 2019, prior to the pandemic, represents a recovery of 95.1%, and only 110,000 tourists would be missing to reach the level of that year.

According to Sectur, the estimated total number of tourists who will arrive at a hotel will be 1.59 million locals, that is, 73.9% of the total, and 565,000 international tourists, 26.1%.

Torruco pointed out that the expense he expects for lodging is 3,434 million pesos (about 172 million dollars) and hotel occupancy at the country level is estimated to be 56.1%, this is an increase of 4.4% compared with the same period of 2021 when the general occupation during these festivities was 51.7%.

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